MULTI-CRITERIA EVALUATION AND RANKING OF CIRCULAR ECONOMY WATER MANAGEMENT ALTERNATIVES FOR PORSUK BASIN

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2023-5-8

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MORADI, NAZANIN

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Rapid urbanization and the overall expansion of the world's population have led to a greater demand for natural resources, particularly water. While most of the earth is covered in water, only a small portion is freshwater. This has prompted a move from the traditional approach of extracting, using, and discarding towards a more sustainable system of resource management that involves reusing and recycling materials. This thesis aims to explore using treated wastewater in the Porsuk Basin to generate circular economy alternatives considering both environmental and economic factors. The allocation of recycled wastewater among various stakeholders, including agricultural, recreational irrigation, industrial, and domestic use, can be difficult due to increasing competition for water. This thesis employs a Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) method, namely the Extended VIKOR method, to evaluate and rank various alternatives to determine the best way to allocate recycled wastewater.

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Circular Economy, Multi-Criteria Decision-Making, Alternatives, Design of Experiments, Extended VIKOR

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/103567

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis